The article entitled "Women in Robotics for Communication and Outreach" was published in RASeNews, the IEEE Robotics and Automation email newsletter on June 14, 2006.

Bibliography: Mihoko Otake and Keiko Homma, "Women in Robotics for Communication and Outreach", RASeNews, the IEEE Robotics and Automation email newsletter, June 14, 2006.

TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world. Through strong collaborations with partners in developing communities, we explore and enhance the role of technology in the globe, focusing on two main principles: sharing expertise to create innovative and locally suitable solutions, and empowerment of indigenous populations to create sustainable solutions. Through these efforts TechBridgeWorld creates technology accessible and relevant to all.

Associate Professor, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Research Interests: the effects of technology on groups and team, the effect of geographic distribution on work teams, cognitive and motivational inhibitors to using and sharing expertise, and the effects of autonomous mobile robots in the work environment, including workers' responses

Ladies' Association of JSME

The Haptic Exploration Laboratory works with both robotic haptics and human-machine haptic interfaces. In the area of robotic haptics, we enable robots to explore the world through touch, using specialized robotic fingers and sensors and the appropriate planning and control. We are developing new finger designs and algorithms for autonomous and teleoperated haptic exploration. In the area of human-machine haptic interfaces, haptic interfaces are used to add the sense of touch to virtual and teleoperated environments. By creating physically-based mathematical models of interactions in real environments, we can enhance the realism of virtual environments. In addition, haptic feedback and active augmentation modes can improve the performance of robotic assistants in tele- and cooperative manipulation. These systems are evaluated using control theoretic and experimental approaches. This research has applications in many areas, including computer-assisted and simulated surgery, autonomous exploration of hazardous or remote environments, undersea salvage, enabling technologies, and manufacturing and design. Sponsors of our work include NSF, NIH and the Whitaker Foundation. The lab director is Dr. Allison Okamura.

Research topic of the laboratory includes humanoid robots, dynamics-based information processing, human figures, and medical robotics.

Beca FPI/FPU (Generalitat i MEC)
Becari FPI de la Uji
TI2032DI
964 387046
Universitat Jaume I

Assistant Professor
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies,
the College of Letters and Science,
University of California, Berkeley

Her work has been seen in numerous festivals, including the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Summer Solstice Celebration, Dance Chicago, and the Performing Arts Chicago PAC/edge Festival. In January 2004, she traveled to Vietnam working on a project entitled Artistic Voices Across Cultures in Collaboration.

Associate Professor in the EECS Department at MIT.
Member of CSAIL at MIT
Research Interests: distributed robotics, mobile computing, and self-organization.

MIRALab is a creative lab which benefits from an interdisciplinary team working in a very collaborative way.
The MIRALab research group at the University of Geneva was founded in 1989 by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann.